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Published 5 Feb 2026In “Firestorm Dresden: 3 Days in Hell”*, we’ll unpack the bombing and subsequent firestorm in February 1945. We’ll look at how first the RAF night raids and then the US 8th Air Force daylight attacks unfolded, the damage they did and the horrific impact on the ground. We’ll look at how the aftermath shaped the myths and understanding surrounding the raid, and the fate of Arthur Harris and those who’d planned the raid.
* Proof once more, as if it were needed, how shit AI is — I have, apparently, to put the title of the video into the first words in the description to attract Google’s attention … I am so sorry to brutalise the English language like this.
[NR: Part one was posted here on January 22nd, should you want to watch it first.]
00:00 – 02:22 – Opening
02:26 – 06:20 – The weather
06:20 – 16:12 – The attack
16:18 – 25:17 – Horror on the ground
25:22 – 29:26 – USAAF Attacks
29:30 – 34:30 – Dealing with the bodies
34:34 – 44:59 – Reaction in the west
45:03 – 48:06 – The Soviet view
48:10 – 54:27 – Summing up and close
i. / europe-in-ice-age-january-1940-why
ii. https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/c…
iii. Frederick Taylor, Dresden, Bloomsbury Books, 2004 (Electronic version 2011) p.518
iv. Max Hastings, Bomber Command, (Pan Military Classics), p. 376). Pan Macmillan. Kindle Edition
v. Middlebrook & Everitt, The Bomber Command Diaries, An Operational Reference Book 1939-945, Penguin, 1985 (from 1990 ed) p.271-273
vi. Middlebrook & Everitt, ibid, p.633
vii. Westermann, Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses 1941-1945, University Press of Kansas 2001, p.279
viii. Taylor, op. cit., p.312 and on
ix. Taylor, op. cit., p.360
x. Peter Reichler, Dresden Hauptbahnhof, Egglham, 1998, p. 54.
xi. HStaD Feuerwehpolizei Bereitschaft 9 Commanders Report, 3rd Company
xii. Overby, The Bombing War in Europe, Penguin, 2014, p.395
xiii. Richard G. Davis, Carl A Spaatz and the Air War in Europe, Centre for Air Force History, 1993, p.556
xiv. Taylor, op. cit., p.412
xv. Davis, op. cit., p.558
xvi. Sinclair, Dresden: The Fire and Darkness, Penguin, p.257
xvii. Taylor, op. cit., p.448
xviii. Taylor, op. cit., p.452
xix. Taylor, op. cit., p.469
xx. Taylor, op. cit., p.475
xxi. Taylor, op. cit., p. 488
xxii. Taylor, op. cit., p. 508
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February 6, 2026
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